Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music.
Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976).
From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant.
Known For
Avengers: Age of Ultron
(2015)
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Movie 43
(2013)
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The Thin Red Line
(1998)
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About Time
(2013)
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The Place Beyond the Pines
(2013)
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A Hidden Life
(2019)
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Men
(2022)
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There Will Be Blood
(2007)
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Song to Song
(2017)
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The Good Shepherd
(2006)
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Foxcatcher
(2014)
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The Great Beauty
(2013)
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Swept Away
(2002)
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Revoir Paris
(2022)
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Wit
(2001)
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Knight of Cups
(2015)
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Full Filmography
Sound
From Evening Till Morning
(1962)
Music
Little Scooter
(1962)
Music
Just like that!
(1963)
Sound
The Last Chimney-Sweep
(1964)
Music
Operaator Kõps seeneriigis
(1964)
Music
Mouse Hunt
(1965)
Music
Operaator Kõps marjametsas
(1965)
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The Milkman of Mäeküla
(1965)
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Operaator Kõps üksikul saarel
(1966)
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Operaator Kõps kiviriigis
(1968)
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The White Land of Enderby
(1969)
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Ice State
(1970)
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Athomic
(1970)
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Summer Games of Insects
(1971)
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Üks helin mul helises rinna sees
(1972)
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Colored Pencils
(1973)
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Spring in the Forest
(1974)
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Täheke
(1974)
Music
Sisters
(1974)
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Colorful Dreams
(1975)
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Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata
(1976)
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Tracks on Snow
(1978)
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest
(1979)
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The Paper Bridge
(1987)
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Testament
(1988)
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Rachel River
(1988)
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Queen of Hearts
(1989)
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The Lovers on the Bridge
(1991)
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Lessons of Darkness
(1992)
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Cage
(1993)
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Hail, Sarajevo
(1993)
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
(1994)
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Two by Dove
(1995)
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Hiroshima
(1995)
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Hamsun
(1996)
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Mother Night
(1996)
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Johns
(1996)
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Wintersleepers
(1997)
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The Thin Red Line
(1998)
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Simons film
(1999)
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A Kind of Hush
(1999)
Music and Additional Soundtrack
Closed Eyes
(2000)
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After the Reconciliation
(2000)
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Lauzon Lauzone
(2001)
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In Praise of Love
(2001)
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Mostly Martha
(2001)
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War Photographer
(2001)
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Wit
(2001)
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C'est la vie
(2001)
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Swept Away
(2002)
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Abandon
(2002)
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Gerry
(2002)
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Heaven
(2002)
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Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
(2003)
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Soldiers of Salamina
(2003)
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The Barbarian Invasions
(2003)
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Japón
(2003)
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Promised Land
(2004)
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Day and Night
(2004)
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Fahrenheit 9/11
(2004)
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Hawaii, Oslo
(2004)
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Dead Man's Shoes
(2004)
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Red Lights
(2004)
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Bang Bang Orangutang
(2005)
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The Giant Buddhas
(2005)
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Phantom Limb
(2005)
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The Buried Forest
(2005)
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Time to Leave
(2005)
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Huldufólk 102
(2006)
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Times and Winds
(2006)
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Goya's Ghosts
(2006)
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The Good Shepherd
(2006)
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Candy
(2006)
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There Will Be Blood
(2007)
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The Unforeseen
(2007)
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In Memory of Me
(2007)
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Elegy
(2008)
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The Banishment
(2008)
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The Young Victoria
(2009)
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Hungry Hills
(2009)
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Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
(2009)
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Elegy of Wood
(2009)
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Simple
(2010)
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White Snow
(2010)
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The Secret Life of Chaos
(2010)
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Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
(2010)
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Eighty Letters
(2011)
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We Have a Pope
(2011)
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Gvido Zvaigzne
(2011)
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The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley
(2011)
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Bells of Europe
(2011)
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This Must Be the Place
(2011)
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Augustine
(2012)
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The Letter
(2012)
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Inescapable
(2012)
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The Man Who Laughs
(2012)
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Triptyque
(2013)
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Six by Sondheim
(2013)
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Childhood Land Siberia
(2013)
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Blue Caprice
(2013)
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Mop King
(2013)
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The Inner Jungle
(2013)
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About Time
(2013)
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To the Wonder
(2013)
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The Place Beyond the Pines
(2013)
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Movie 43
(2013)
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Violette
(2013)
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The East
(2013)
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The Great Beauty
(2013)
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The Way He Looks
(2014)
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Foxcatcher
(2014)
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The Master
(2015)
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Standing Tall
(2015)
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Adam's Passion
(2015)
Music
The Wait
(2015)
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
(2015)
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The Daughter
(2015)
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Knight of Cups
(2015)
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The Club
(2015)
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
(2015)
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Mia madre
(2015)
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Cracking the Shakespeare Code
(2016)
Music
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
(2016)
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Twenty Two
(2017)
Music
Wildebeest
(2017)
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Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
(2017)
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Loveless
(2017)
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Novitiate
(2017)
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Song to Song
(2017)
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The Apparition
(2018)
Music and Additional Soundtrack
Not Even a Gravestone
(2018)
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I am the Human thy God
(2019)
Music
Valley of the Rulers
(2019)
Music
A Hidden Life
(2019)
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Better Days
(2019)
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From Matti with Love
(2019)
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Sweet Thing
(2020)
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Experience of Goodness
(2021)
Music
Birds of Paradise
(2021)
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
(2021)
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Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo
(2022)
Music and Additional Soundtrack
Revoir Paris
(2022)
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Men
(2022)
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Por la gloria de sus padres
(2023)
Songs
Acting
Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata
(1976)
Piano Player at the Restaurant
Arvo Pärt in November 1978
(1978)
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning
(1990)
Himself
Grisha
(1996)
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
(2002)
Himself
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
(2009)
Himself
Maestro
(2015)
Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything
(2015)
Himself
The Lost Paradise
(2015)
Himself
That Pärt Feeling
(2019)
Himself
7 Lakes, 7 Lives
(2021)
Crew